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Google was forced into some quick tweaking of Google Voice last month after users spotted that transcripts of voicemail messages were being served up in search results. An alert user spotted what is clearly an oversight by the firm whose global mission is to index everything that moves. Or doesn't move. The service allows …

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  1. Adam Salisbury
    Dead Vulture

    Google

    Just when you thought the advertising industry couldn't get anymore sleazy and and pervasive, alongs comes a Google

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Danger!

    Just because Google put a fix in that will hide the transcription from "public search records" doesn't mean that they are still not automatically transcribing them for their own internal uses, now does it?

    Think about it. The privacy breach still exists. That is of course if you are using Google voice, Google Brother is still listening.

    And how well do you trust Google?

  3. Do Not Fold Spindle Mutilate
    Paris Hilton

    Your password has been reset to

    Wonder how many of the messages would be "Your password has been reset to ..." which would give all script kiddies an easy ride? Or would the message be "Paris were going out to a night club so give us a call at 555-1234"?

  4. Neoc
    Thumb Down

    Engage brain

    '' As one posted to Boygeniusreport said, "Lol you really think google would make a programming mistake like that??" ''

    <sarcasm> Lol, you really think people would make the difference between a programming mistake and a faulty business case </sarcasm>

    This is *not* a programming mistake - this is a situation which nobody at Google thought of (I hope). Happens a lot in any company; something happens to the brand-new *complex* system, fingers are pointed, and some poor schmuck in the programming department turns around and says "we never even thought of *that*".

    I can see why a company which is *geared* towards indexing/search-results would have automatically indexed and presented the results by default. Because that's what they do, by default. Until someone realises that the default doesn't apply in this case.

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